Labor and Employee Relations at Duke University

Many of the secondary sources listed below are the products of research using Duke University Archives collections.

As you read these secondary sources, take careful note of their footnotes; they will point you to University Archives collections that may be helpful to your own research.

Books, Journal Articles, Etc.

• Greene, Christina. Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

• Ludwig, Erik. "Closing in on the 'Plantation': Coalition Building and the Role of Black Women's Grievances in Duke University Labor Disputes, 1965-1968." Feminist Studies. Vol. 25, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 79-94.

• Sacks, Karen Brodkin. Caring by the Hour: Women, Work, and Organizing at Duke Medical Center. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1988.
• Segal, Theodore. Point of Reckoning: The Fight for Racial Justice at Duke University. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. (print copy OR ebook)

Student Papers

• Bailey, Kevin. "Bad Blood on the Ward: A Study of the Politics of Labor Organizing at Duke Hospital, 1974-1976." Undergraduate Honors Paper, Duke University, 1991.

• Creamer, Robert W. "Duke Employees Local 77: Confrontation over Impartial Arbitration of Grievances." Undergraduate paper, 1967.

• Ludwig, Kenneth Aaron. "First-Class Education and 'Second Hand' Workers: The Struggle for Unionization during Duke's Decade of Development, 1965-1968." Undergraduate Honors Paper, Duke University, 1998.

• Segal, Theodore. "A 'New Genesis': The Silent Vigil at Duke University." Undergraduate Honors Paper, Duke University, 1977.  See digitized copy here. 

• Rudman, Michael. "The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1971 and the Consequent Development of the Safety Program at Duke University," 1978. From the Dept. of History. Records, 1924-ongoing, box 4.

• Toro, Kim L. "The Silent Vigil." Cultural Anthropology 105S.01 Research Paper, 1992. From the Dept. of Cultural Anthropology. Records, box 1.

• Wise. Leah. "Stirring the Pot: Oliver Harvey's Narrative Account of the Struggle to Organize Duke University." From the Student Papers Reference Collection, box 2.